Yōko Umemura
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Birthday:1903-10-21
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The 47 Ronin (1941)
In the early 18th-century, Lord Takumi-no-kami Asano, feuding with Lord Kira, tries to kill his opponent in the corridors of the Shogun's palace. The...
Osaka Elegy (1936)
Ayako becomes the mistress of her boss in order to pay her father's debt and prevent him from going to prison for embezzlement.
Sandai no sakazuki (1942)
1942 Japanese movie
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (1939)
In late 19th-century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that the...
Oyuki the Virgin (1935)
When a civil war threatens to break out, two geishas flee from their village with aristocrats. During the long journey, the socially inferior women...
Shinpan Ôoka seidan: Dai-nihen (1928)
Silent Japanese film.
Sisters of the Gion (1936)
A geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto feels obliged to help her lover when he asks to stay with her after going bankrupt and leaving his wife....
A Mermaid on Land (1926)
Directed by Yutaka Abe (as Jack Abe).
晴小袖 (1940)
A lost film directed by Ushihara Kiyohiko based on a story published in the Mainichi Sunday Newspaper entitled '恋女扇.' It stars a wild man who...
Mistress of a Foreigner (1930)
Tōjin Okichi is a 1930 film by Kenji Mizoguchi based on the novel by Gisaburo Juichiya. Only 4 minutes have survived. The fragment has been...
Poppy (1935)
Fujio is beautiful, talented, well-heeled, and engaged to up-and-coming diplomat Munechika. She has promised him a gold watch, a family heirloom, as...
A Paper Doll's Whisper of Spring (1926)
Otane, the daughter of a thread shop owner in Ryogoku, is in love with Sumio, the son of an ivory craftsman who lives nearby. The two are united in a...
The Ghost Cat and the Mysterious Shamisen (1938)
Mitsue is a popular stage actress and the lover of a shamisen player named Seijuro. She jealously murders two other objects of his affection: Okiyo,...
The Woman Who Touched The Legs (1926)
A twice-remade ironic comedy about a writer's encounter with a female thief.
Five Women Around Him (1927)
Directed by Yutaka Abe.
Ōoka Cases Devil's Image - Part One (1930)
A Japanese silent film
And Yet They Go On (1931)
Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. Released in 2 parts. His only release of 1931. Considered a lost film.
The Letter (1936)
A samurai is ordered by his lord to go to Edo and investigate the truth behind the rumor of a rebellion against him.
Miss Okichi (1935)
Okichi, a woman trapped in a criminal scheme by two con men, finds her life of deception threatened when she unexpectedly falls in love with the son...
New Clothing (1936)
Japan's first feature film directed by a female. The film was about the naïve, premature emotions between a young geisha-to-be and a youth...
Masujiro Omura (1942)
A story about Ômura Masujirô
A Man of the Arts (1941)
Follows the life of an illegitimate son of a kabuki actor.
Osaka Woman (1940)
When wealthy Ochika marries desolute Danpei, she devotes herself completely to him and takes over her business, to the point of sowing dissensions...
Shinpan Ôoka seidan: Dai-ippen (1928)
Silent Japanese film.
Shinpan Ôoka seidan; Daisanpen: Kaikatsuhen (1928)
Silent Japanese film.
The Kasahara School (1929)
Directed by Kichiro Tsuji.
The March of the Restoration (1942)
The first film produced by Daiei.
Oedo no asagiri (1942)
Depicting Katsu Kaishu's youth.